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= __Topic__: = __The Storm__ (Lesson 2) Understanding character skills Identifying character feelings by what they are thinking and saying in the story.

=__ Common Core Standards: __= RL.1.3 Describe characters, setting and major events in a story, using keydetails. RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, settings, or events. RF.1.3b Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words in CVC (short vowel sound /i/) patterned words. W.1.5 With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed. L.1.1b Use common, proper and possessive nouns. 4.p2.1a Weather is the condition of the outside air at a particular moment.

=__ Suggested Student Objectives: __= SW categorize nouns as places or things. SW describe and analyze characters by what they say and do using a T-chart. SW add adverbial phrases to a captions to make them more meaningful and interesting, i.e. He hid. He hid under the bed. SW be able to connect a storm to their personal feelings. SW be able to read this week's spelling words that follow a CVC (short vowel sound /e/) pattern in the decodable readers.

=__ Suggested Additional Readings: __= __ Storm on the Desert __ (Lesser, Carolyn) __ Minnie and Moo Meet Frankenswine __ (Cazet, Denys)

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=__ Activities: __= Act out how what you do when you hear thunder and see lightning in the sky. Teacher can make a flip chart listing the actions and spoken words of the students to the given situation.

Draw a picture of a type of storm. Write a caption to go with the picture.

Using magnetic letters, teacher will dictate one CVC word with a medial short /e/ sound to students. Students will form that word with letters and then make rhyming words following the pattern

=__ Assessment: __= Spelling and Journey's Lesson 2 weekly assessments. Practice workbook p.25 (writing)

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